The Massacre of the Innocents is the story told in the New Testament (but only in one of the Gospels),…

We’re home for the holidays. My wife insists: ‘We live in a resort!’ The neighbour’s roof is in front of…

No wonder woke has won

A new government breaks from old habits

What hope for the snowflake generation?

Beauty lost in the silica mines

The behaviour of Secretary-General Guterres is a disgrace

It’s time to walk away

Kerry breaks bad wind

Blockbuster budgets are destroying creativity

Those who oppose Israel oppose our very essence

Welcome to our rendezvous with destiny - the Fourth Turning

(via Hawaii, of course)

‘Free Palestine’ demonstrators really just support Hamas

The flawed legacy of Dictator Dan

Some very good, and a few astonishingly bad

The actor best known for his role as Star Trek’s Captain Picard comes across as pompous, chippy and point-scoring as he reminisces about directors and fellow stars

Having signed fake screenprints as his own, Warhol left his work open to questionable rulings by an authentication board, causing collectors much frustration and expense

Rupert Campbell-Black (‘still Nirvana to most women’) decides to buy a football club – to the amazement of Rutshire, and no doubt Cooper’s devoted readers

The song has evolved from Christian hymn to secular anthem for humankind. But the powerful tune we know today was not its original one

Maxim Samson investigates cultural or imaginary demarcations around the world, including the International Date Line, America’s Bible Belt and the Jewish eruvim

Her ‘rebel’ life, as told by Mary Gabriel, has been a frenzied churn of friends, lovers, mentors and collaborators, vital to her for a year or two and then discarded

Even in the deepest mineshaft we’re surrounded by light we can’t see, explains Jacqueline Yallop, drawing on quantum physics to help dispel ordinary night terrors

‘Nobody should ever be afraid of sharing their poetry’, he says, in an anthology co-edited with Len McCluskey. But, judging by his own offering, afraid is what we should be

Elagabalus’s suffocating party tricks may have been exaggerated, but Domitian’s sinister, death-themed feasts could be seen as a dictator’s flamboyant threat

Its ruined fortresses, broken monasteries and deserted villages attest to centuries of conflict, and any idea of a united Caucasus remains a dream, says Christoph Baumer

So the Matthew Warchus/Jack Thorne A Christmas Carol opened again to just as rapturous a response as it did a…

They keep doing this to us. Those kids keep inventing new words of obscure origin, and of even obscurer meaning.…

‘Oh sweetheart,’ I smiled lovingly at my four-week-old, Teddy, one night at 3am, while changing his nappy, ‘would you please…

Fairly odd 1. What had for 50 years been the name for Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit before it was changed…